Electrical & small, we want more!

Recycle your small electrical items at the Household Recycling Centre, Shidas Lane, Oldbury and enter our competition to win an iPod.

Reduce and Reuse

Reduce - find out how to reduce the amount of rubbish that you throw away including:

• Food waste
• Composting at home
• Junk mail
• Using cloth nappies

Reuse and return.
Tips on reusing items at home as well as reuse and return schemes.

Recycle

Recycling collections from homes - Sandwells range of recycling collections includes:

• Green box or green bag recycling - including Community Recycling Venture (CRV) collections
• Blue lid recycling
• Garden waste wheeled bin - garden waste collections are not taking place during the current collection service disruptions, go to our homepage for the latest information
• Bulky and large items

Recycling Centres

• The Household Recycling Centre, Shidas Lane, Oldbury has an extensive range of facilities for recycling,
• There are over 60 recycling centres across the borough
• Find out what you can recycle and where

Recycling Information

• What happens to your recycling
• Recycle for Sandwell news - find out the latest recycling news in Sandwell
• Recycling educational resources  useful for schools and community groups
• Sign up to the reduce, reuse, recycle for Sandwell e-newsletter by emailing subscribe to recycleforsandwell@sandwell.gov.uk

Recycling Service Improvements

The council is improving recycling, waste management and street cleansing services by implementing a Waste Improvement Plan.

The overall aim of the plan is to maximise the potential for recycling and composting and to minimise the amount of waste that is sent to landfill.